New speaker: Naftogaz head at BP LNG Summit

New speaker: Naftogaz head at BP LNG Summit

Organizers of the Budapest LNG Summit are honored to welcome Andriy Kobolyev, CEO of Naftogaz of Ukraine, as one of our presenters at Central & Eastern Europe’s best natural gas event, happening 16-17 October in Hungary’s spectacular capital.

Mr. Kobolyev has over eight years of experience in the oil and gas sector in Ukraine. Prior to his appointment as CEO of Naftogaz of Ukraine, Andriy was an adviser at the AYA Capital private investment and banking group. There he was involved with raising debt and equity capital, loan restructuring, and reorganization of corporate structures of large enterprises.

Andriy worked for Naftogaz of Ukraine between 2002 and 2010, where he started his career as a specialist in the Economy and Price Policy Department. In 2006-2007, he occupied the position of director of the Department for Corporate Finance and Price Policy and in 2008-2010 he was an adviser to the chairman. In these roles he took part in numerous negotiations with Russia’s gas monopoly Gazprom.

In 2004-2010, he coordinated the process of raising borrowings from international banks of USD 2 billion and was responsible for restructuring external debt in 2009.

Andriy Kobolyev started his career in PricewaterhouseCoopers (1999-2002). There he worked as a management consultant and was responsible for strategic management and corporate reorganization projects.

In 2000, he graduated from the International Relations Institute at Kyiv National Shevchenko University with a Masters in International Economic Relations.